I smiled for my battery command photo, but I noticed that many junior officers don't smile, only really becomes normal at battalion command and above. Anyone know why there is such a stigma for junior officers smiling in their command photos?
2006-10-08 21:09:41 · 5 answers · asked by Big Blair 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
It's not just junior officers, it's military photos period. And it's not a stigma. They ARE military photos, not some photo for a high school year book. You're supposed to look tough and proud and all that. I don't think I've ever really seen a smile in a military photo, at any level. It's not professional.
2006-10-09 02:14:47 · answer #1 · answered by HEartstrinGs 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stigmas are attached to incompetents who can't or don't carry out the missions assigned them. No one seriously cares about something as insignificant as a photo.
2006-10-08 21:41:46 · answer #2 · answered by abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Junior officers know they are getting screwed and the senior officers know they are doing the screwing
2006-10-09 03:45:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
wanna look tough. And it's partly guilt for taking credit of an enlisted persons hard work and oh yes that too..brown butt stains on teeth!
2006-10-08 21:37:03 · answer #4 · answered by My name is MJ Beatch! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do not want to appear as eating cheese which is the military way of saying butt kisser. They want to appeared determined.
2006-10-08 21:12:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋